Understand Girl I'm a different brand I'm not the average man I can show you things you've never seen I'm making plans to fly to the South France I got ticket in my hand So baby let's just up and leave
I'm that romantic type Who likes do thing right Make love by candle-light 'Cause I'm that kind of guy
I like sexy girls From east to west-coast She could be ghetto or be a supermodel I like sexy girls All kind of women I got so many And that's just how I'm living
I like the way she move her hips Run her tongue across her lips Sippin' wine instead of cries so, so sexy
Think about her jeans Victoria secret thongs Surely get me sprung Love the way they look on you We could shill down at the sunset grill Or get lost out in Brazil Let's do whateva suits your mood
I like the way you shake your thing Ooh you make me wanna scream (Ooh Ooh Ooh) So sexy So sexy Looks so good inside your clothes You don't need your skin exposed And still You're sexy so sexy
When fashion is your passion At first glance leaves a lasting impression Paris catwalks, big small talk The casting couch promise that'll put you worse off
Every evening London's receiving A beat machine man-made and so deceiving We got the groove now, we'll show the world how To wake this planet up with a new sound now
I'm into fashion just because of you It ain't the flash man, it's down to attitude I'm into fashion all because of you I got new fashion just designed for you
Silk emerald islands Diamante high lands A vouge sale scheme, just an empty day dream Child labour out of favour Fashion can have such a nasty flavour
I'm into fashion just because of you It ain't the flash man, it's down to attitude I'm into fashion all because of you I got new fashion just for you
Hand me downs I wear my rags well I mix, match and I make it gel
Just hand it down I'm breaking new ground You'll always find me in a thrift store wheelin' around
I'm into fashion just because of you It ain't the flash man, it's down to attitude I'm into fashion all because of you I got new fashion just for you
I'm into fashion just because of you It ain't the flash man, it's down to attitude I'm into fashion all because of you I got new fashion just for you
Cos he loves the models And he hugs the models Goes to lunch with models Cos he's trying everyday and when he sleeps With models Dreams of models Wants to be a model Cos it's all he's got to say
Why don't you call? Got your number got your back on my wall So why don't you call me?
Nothing at all Rocks my hunger like a trip to the mall So why don't you call me?
Why don't you call? Why don't you call? Why don't you come around baby? Nothing at all You got my number and it's driving me crazy
Credit cards and lobster and crystal in rounds (first class) Back doors and bouncers only A list allowed (smart bars) All those faces in the places to be seen Darling we're in fashion, don't you know?
Cos he loves the models And he hugs the models Goes to lunch with models Cos he's trying everyday and when he sleeps With models Dreams of models Wants to be a model Cos it's all he's got to say
A girl's got face, fancy place Baby can I stick with you? A sheet's got head, head to feet Baby what am I to do?
A girl's got style, legs for miles Seen them walk all over you You get your kicks like flies to shit Buzzing round the model zoo
Cos he loves the models And he hugs the models Goes to lunch with models Cos he's trying everyday and when he sleeps With models Dreams of models Wants to be a model Cos it's all he's got to say
Where do you go? After dinner instead of walking me home Where do you go to?
Why don't you phone? Someone thinner's got you talking in code Does she mean you know me?
Why don't you call? Why don't you call? Why don't you come around baby? Nothing at all You got my number and it's driving me crazy
Cos he loves the models And he hugs the models Goes to lunch with models Cos he's trying everyday and when he sleeps With models Dreams of models Wants to be a model Cos it's all he's got to say
Cos he loves the models And he hugs the models Goes to lunch with models Cos he's trying everyday and when he sleeps With models Dreams of models Wants to be a model Cos it's all he's got to say
KM: There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was seventeen on.
IS: And now you're . . .
KM: Twenty-five. And once it started to happen fast, I suddenly felt quite ill. I couldn't get out of bed. I didn't know what was wrong with me. And I went to the doctor and he said, "There's nothing wrong with you. Here's some Valium." And Francesca [Sorrenti] freaked out. She said, "No way! You can't take that." I wasn't allowed to keep them myself. She'd give me like a fraction of a Valium.
IS: Why do you think you had a freak-out?
KM: Because it felt so big. And all of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. And I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot and was alone a lot. It was quite terrifying, actually.
IS: Kate, often people who don't have this kind of attention don't understand why people who get the attention get screwed up. It's hard to understand why some who seem to have everything - famous singers, actors, models, artists, et cetera - go over the edge. Why do you think people lose it?
KM: I think it's because everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I felt like that. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.
IS: I remember walking down the street a few years ago and there was a poster of you on a wall. And someone had written something like "Anorexic Scandal!" on it.
KM: Yeah.
IS: I'm sure I'm not telling you something you don't know - that in an effort to raise consciousness about anorexia, and the relationship between images and how they influence us, there were people who knew nothing about you who used you. Can you talk about what that meant - to have your body symbolized and have people making assumptions?
KM: [takes a breath] At first, I got really defensive. I was like, "What are they talking about?" It was upsetting, absolutely. I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous. And just because one person brought it up, then everyone was like, "Oh, yeah! She must be anorexic." And no matter how much I say over and over and over again that I'm not, they don't want to hear it. They want the opposite to be true. And that's even more upsetting.
KM: Yes. We fought the whole time. "Obsession" is the way to describe our relationship. Calvin was very clever. He saw that. But we did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked. I remember hearing Mario's voice in the other room going, "I love you, Kate. I love you, Kate." And I was like [gasping], "What is that?!" [both laugh] He was like, "Well, it's true, man! It's true!" and I was like, "You're mad!" Soon we split up, and then became really good friends, which we are to this day.
IS: Looking back, it feels like that was all part of chapter one. Chapter two is when your career just exploded.
KM: I don't think so. After that we started working together a lot. One job with Corinne always took weeks and weeks and weeks of work. We'd reshoot picture after picture after picture. It was always an ongoing thing. It was never like one day or two days or three days. During that time I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have. [laughs] I went to see my friends. Then I started going up to London a lot more, and going out at night.
IS: What do you think it was that really rocketed you to what happened next?
KM: I think it was those Summer of Love pictures that Corinne took [with Melanie Ward as the stylist]. It was a story that was talked about and that people related to at the time.
IS: Why?
KM: Because it captured what was going on in England at the time. It wasn't '80s glamour. It was about the street. Everyone was saying, "Let's get off our tits and have a laugh. Be more real and not have to grow up so quickly. And have fun."
It was a really exciting time. I was working with Corinne. We were really close friends. I ended up living with her for a while and we'd just hang out all the time. And talk about fashion and what we were going to do and draw pictures. She had very strong opinions and very strong ideas about what she wanted to do. We did lots of the images that she wanted to do. And I think she did succeed in changing things a bit.
IS: Definitely. Her work heralded a very different approach in fashion photography. But keep telling me.
KM: Well, then I met Mario Sorrenti. He was modeling at the time. I was kind of seeing a friend of his, and then his friend went away and he kind of pounced on me. Which is a bit naughty [laughs] but I'm glad he did. We were together and we would do pictures as well, because he wanted to be a photographer. Then I went to New York with him, and met other photographers.
IS: Did New York seem magical?
KM: It felt like a world away. Completely.
IS: Was it a world you wanted to be in?
KM: I didn't know where I really wanted to be and I was quite happy where I was at the time. I lived with Mario for a while, and his mother, Francesca, and his brother and sister, Davide and Vanina, and they became my second family. It was such a nice time. Then I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. . . . I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working. Mario got the Obsession job. We'd been on holiday and taken these pictures that Calvin [Klein] loved. He said, "Go off again and do something for the perfume." We rented this house on the beach on this beautiful island and we had the worst time. [laughs]
KM: My agent was going, "You don't understand! You got a job in the first week!" When I went back to school, it was kind of a big thing. I was excited to tell my friends I was going to be in a magazine.
IS: Did they pay you?
KM: Yeah.
IS: Can you remember the amount?
KM: Like a hundred pounds.
IS: Did that seem like a lot of money?
KM: Yeah! My God, yeah! And then, basically, it went on from there. I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces. Then I met Corinne Day, who was doing the casting for a job for The Face [magazine].
IS: OK. Listen, I know you've had a long day's work, so before we start talking, get yourself comfortable and relaxed. That way we can have a real conversation.
KM: Yep.
IS: How did your career get started?
KM: I was on a holiday [in 1988] with my dad and my brother. We'd been in the Bahamas for two weeks and on the way back had been stranded at Kennedy airport for a night. My dad's mother was getting married in England the next day, and he told the airline. They said them was one last flight with three seats left. I was praying, "Please let us get on that plane." We did. There was one seat in economy, one in business, and one in first class. I was in economy, my brother was in business, and my dad was in first class. Halfway through the flight - the meal had come and I was listening to my Walkman - a man came over to where I was sitting and said, "Excuse me." I was like, "What? What do you want?" He said, "My sister owns a modeling agency and she'd like to speak to you." We ended up having this chat. To this day she's still my agent - Sarah Doukas.
IS: Did you believe these strangers when they said you could be a model?
KM: [laughs] When we got off the plane I told my dad about it, and he laughed. Then after we got home I told my mum and a few days later we were sitting around the kitchen table, and one of us said, "Should we give her a call?" We phoned her up and made an appointment and went on the train up to London to see her. She signed me up. They took some Polaroids, put them in a book, and immediately sent me off on castings.
IS: How old were you?
KM: I was fourteen. At the end of that first day my mum said, "If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare."
IS: What was it like for a schoolgirl from Croydon to suddenly find herself in Glamoursville? Kate, try to go back and remember how it felt, getting off that train, walking in to that agency, and going on those first castings.
KM: I was really nervous. And intimidated by the whole thing - by all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place. Now, after years of being in it I know that it's not that big at all. But it felt huge.
IS: Did it feel glamorous?
KM: Yeah!
IS: Did it feel further than your reach? Or unreal? Or beyond your wildest dreams? Did it make sense to you?
KM: I was really excited. It didn't feel beyond my reach, really. I've got pictures of me when I was around eleven, posing. Not with the pseudo-model pose, you know, the arm behind the head and all of that, but like a real model pose. I don't know why. But I did say to my mum, "I don't think I'm very photogenic," and she agreed, "I know. I don't think you are either." I didn't really think anything was going to come of it. But I thought, "Why not?" It wasn't like, "Oh, my God, I hope, I hope, I hope!" It was like, "What a laugh. Have a go and see." I just kind of took my chances, really.
IS: Before that plane trip, had anyone ever said you should be a model?
KM: Well, I was quite thin. And even though I'm not tall for a model, for my school I was quite tall. I was kind of lanky. People would say, "Oh, you should be a model," or something like that. But I'd never really considered it. In fact I thought it was quite vain to say, "I want to be a model." On a holiday I'd taken at an earlier time, I met a girl who said she wanted to be a model, and I was like, "Oh, my God! I would never say that!"
IS: Did you know anything about the fashion world?
KM: I didn't really know that much about it. I suppose I had ideas about it, but I didn't think about it at all. I'd watched model competitions and Miss World on television and things like that, but I wasn't conscious of fashion magazines. I knew teenage magazines.
IS: How long did it take to get a job?
KM: It was on the first week of castings. The job was like a beauty scrub kind of thing. I had no idea of what was going on. There was another girl and she looked like she had been around for a while, to me anyway. She was having her hair and makeup done and I thought, "Oh, my God, what are they doing to her?" Her hair was all funny and I was like, "Oh, no!"
Picasso had Olga, Marie-Therese, Dora, Francoise, and Jacqueline. Today it would be Naomi, Carolyn, Kirsten, Shalom, Karen, Erin, Maggie, Devon, and, of course, Kate - the one Degas would have adored for her balletic grace. For a spell there, Moss had vanished. But now that she's back she's ready to tell it like it is, instead of staying zipped up while others misinterpret what she's about
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If you think real hard about the aches, thecard, the blackboard that you've drawn on for so long. You realize that it's gone, and withit that swan song, the mirror of your life has turned to shards. If that means broken glass,na'er you won't have the chance to laugh at those who always laughed at you. Think back -yes it's cool, to jump up and be through, when even worser things have come to pass
Arab Strap Week Never Starts Round Here Kate Moss Don't try and tell me kate moss ain't pretty. Don't try and make me believe. Don't try to force me to let you boss me when i'm pretending to leave.
I knew that you could ruin my good mood. That's exactly what you've done. We sat there silent ,you got violent. Going out with you used to be fun. [ Arab Strap Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]
You're getting colder, no doubt you've told her I've just come past. Does she know maybe, you're having a baby? I think it's about time you did that test.
You know i'll miss you when i can't kiss you. You know i don't want us to split. Now i must say it's going that way. You're always bored and full of shit.
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